Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-04
THOU SHALT NorPAss.

THE BALEFUL ACT OF a TENAS STATESMAN
THAT KEEPS MEMPHIS NEWSPAPER MEN
BROILING Al HOME.
The whilom annual exodus of Memphis
newspaper men to northern resorts, where
they have been so much courted and
feted, viii not occur this year, and the
hope that the time-honored custom will
be rcinstated some other year is faint and
growing fainter. 1t appears that hence
forth they must sWeiter in the torrid
present, and comfort themselves as best
they may with the memories OF the
golden past. The Metropolitan Press
Club will no more entertain them at ban
quets and embalm their virtues in loaded
BREWER next morning. Never, never
again will they be exhibited to the ad-
mirirg gaze of the nation as heroes who
held this town up by The seat Of its
brooches when it Was stumbling to fall.
Intimate association with real live
Journalists" must be to them only
"Reminiscences. In time TO come they will
be forced to content themselves with the
company of ordinary newspaper workers
OF their own provincial sort, and be shut
out from hobn0bbiug with Arr
and Higher culture in the metropolitan
symposium CT mind. 10 put the situa-
ton with brutal irankness, they must
either stay at home or pay railroad fares
like ordinary mortals-Hhlch is equiya-
lent to stating the first proposition as an
unqualified fact.
The retrospect is too painful TO dwell
upon at length. Olly brief year ago
tire weary ard over heated mCulder of
to the general passenger agent and get 8
hat full of passes for himself and
family to any point under the Tgis of
the American eagle. Then would
he rise from the tripod, where he had
been writing fierce denunCistions of the
railroad robbers, and skip blithelY to the
train that was to bear him and mis- hun
dIeis, perchauce thousands OF miles, his
only scrip and store being the sign man
u2l Of those self-seme robbers. They
durst not refuse him, lest his potent pen
Gil should "bear" the stock of their road
or compel Legislatures 10 build gates
across their tracks. They bowed down
to the man Of the magic type, and he was
the boss, yea, over all the minion5 of
monopoly, from the highest unto
the lowest of them. He wanted the
earth and got it, always excepting the
three-feet-siX OF the Pullman car berth.
Pullman being possessed of many sheck-
els and town Of his own 500 miles away,
derided the influence Of the Memphis
press ard Knocked its representatives,
! saying: ono pay, no Sleep" or words
to that effect. And so he wrurg a. least
$40 annually from the ethereal wallets cf
the fourth estate.
! A man by the name Of Reagan, g long
| haired, malignant Texan, has brought
/ this woiul change to US. At one fell
swoop he transformed the debonaire
newspaper tourist into common place
ay- at-home. Through his instrument
atty law was enacted by congress:
forbiddIng railroads to pass anybody
with an understood reservation in favoI
OF congressman. The railroader kicked
ostentatiouslY, but in the privacy
Of his cliice Rugged himself witt
ghOulish glee. The law was K
him declaration of independence. HI
has the United States 10 back him u
now, he snaps his fingers at the erstwhilt
imperious editor. request for the Gov
e.ed hat full Of passes is answered by
note referring the requester to the Re
vIsed Statutes, and closing with tn
statement: 81 dassent." He dast, bu
woa't
The psss was beautiful in life, and il
death it is not forgotten. The newspape
man may, il he is good, hope to meet
again in another and better world, woer
Reagan caunot come Memphis A "a
lanche.